Our View: Congress needs to end gridlock, dysfunction

9:23 PM,
Nov. 12, 2013

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
Our View

Just when we thought Congress' approval rating couldn't go any lower, the Gallup poll results released Tuesday found that mere nine people out of every 100 respondents approved of the job Congress has been doing. (Which raises the obvious question, "What's wrong with those nine people?")

That 9 percent level marks the lowest rating since Gallup first began polling Americans on the issue 39 years ago.

The previous low - which was reached twice in 2012 - bottomed out at a 10 percent approval rate. Congress had recovered somewhat with a 19 percent approval rate in September, but last month's ...